Barbarava

Families have so little time to spend together with all their demands - why start school, interrupt it, and make the Labor Day holiday a blip on the school calendar? As well as not finishing out the summer--yes, WHY?

BravesRock

How about we move beyond the idea of a long summer break, which was based on the need for kids to be home working on the farm in an agricultural economy. Year-round school, with several shorter breaks during the year, makes a lot more sense academically. Most kids spend the first month or so of the school year re-learning what they forgot over the summer.